Should I give up breastfeeding?

[FenugreekGodess]

I have a beautiful 3 wk old DD (can't believe I can now write DD! ) but struggling to decide whether to ditch my failing breastfeeding attempts and go full formula.
Due to a traumatic delivery I didn't get much skin to skin over the few days in hospital but we tried when I felt I was able to. During the following weeks we've done bits of skin to skin but probably no where near enough. We were put on top ups from within the first 24hrs and a much as I'm cross about that it probably saved us from extra time in hospital or readmission for significant weight loss as she still lost weight but within accepted levels.
My milk supply isn't satisfying her and I've been put on a pumping plan but I think that because I have nothing in the tank energy wise I'm not going to get anything, my experience of labour and recovery have half wiped me out.
I can't bear to see her so distraught at my breasts giving her no milk. She's not gaining enough weight but she's not loosing. Only gained 2oz last week.
I want her to thrive and for me to feel less knackered and strung out.
WWYD and any recommendations?

Just wanted to send love and support. I struggled with both mine and ultimately both ended up formula fed, my first lost 13% of birth weight and ended up with jaundice and I freaked out and felt rubbish and struggled to get a latch so moved to bottles with some expressed milk abs rest formula. My second I was desperate to breast feed but again struggled with latch and fear of jaundice meant I ended up bottle feeding again but did purely expressed milk for 4 months ( not being able to go anywhere definitely helped this). My issue is big boobs so found a lot of the suggested ways to hold baby just didn't work and my community midwife told me it's so much harder to get latch. It's easy to feel guilty about it but please do what's right for you, do what you feel comfortable with and dont be pushed either way. It's ok to keep trying but it's also ok to decide it's not working for you.

In hindsight I wish I'd stopped sooner.

We couldn't get a latch so I exclusively pumped for 3 months. I was also having a bad IBD flare at the time and I was on my knees with exhaustion.

You have to think of yourself too.

I had the same issues with my firstborn. A consultation with a breastfeeding specialist midwife at the hospital recommended taking fenegreek capsules (Holland and barratt)
She said if they don't work after 2 days, they won't work for the problem, but they did! Basically, they dilute your milk so child can get it out easier.
I think I took them for about 1 or 2 months and then didn't need anymore.

But I do agree, do what is right for you. Happy mum, happy baby!